Simple, High Order Multipole Traps for Simultaneous Non-Neutral and Neutral Particle Confinement

University Of California-Berkeley, Berkeley CA

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Abstract

This project will develop a new fabrication method for non-neutral plasma traps, and use the traps to study trap geometries that are compatible with neutral atom traps. The new traps will be used to study the physics of high order multipole fields and other issues associated with combined neutral and charged particle traps, and also studies the physics of fast magnetic perturbations. The results of this research will be of great interest to the anti-matter community and the designs developed here may be incorporated into the next generation of anti-hydrogen traps.